Heinrich North

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Heinrich Norden (real name: Nikolaus Wöll ; also: Nikolaus Woll , Nikolaus Heinrich Wöll ) (* 1880 ; † 1969 ) was a German doctor , writer and tropical medicine .

Life

Heinrich Norden served the Basel Mission in Cameroon.

With the novel The Sorcerer's Nephew , which concerns the situation in the German colony of Cameroon , Norden is one of the representatives of colonial literature .

Works

  • Heinrich Norden: the nephew of the magician. A story from Cameroon . Verlag der Basler Missionsbuchhandlung, Basel 1913. This novel is one of three, on the basis of which Gouaffo analyzes the narrative means with which colonial authors try to bring the colonies, in this case Cameroon, closer to the German reading public.

literature

  • Albert Gouaffo: Knowledge and Culture Transfer in a Colonial Context. The example of Cameroon - Germany (1884-1919). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8260-3754-2 .
  • Albert Gouaffo: Report on what has been seen and experienced. Heinrich Norden as carrier of knowledge and culture transfer between the Cameroonian arts hinterland and Germany , in: Rebekka Habermas / Richard Hölzl (editor): Mission global. A history of intertwining since the 19th century , Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2014, pages 199–212, ISBN 978-3-412-22203-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German National Library
  2. ↑ Gouaffo, page 95, footnote 124.
  3. ↑ Gouaffo 2007, page 88ff.
personal data
SURNAME North, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wöll, Nikolaus; Woll, Nikolaus; Wöll, Nikolaus Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, writer and tropical medicine
DATE OF BIRTH 1880
DATE OF DEATH 1969